Search for missing British hiker resumes. 37-year-old woman missing in Pyrenees

SPANISH police have restarted the search for British woman Esther Dingley who went missing while hiking in the Pyrenees last year.

The hunt for the 37-year-old was halted over the winter months as mountain snow fell on high ground – she vanished after last making contact with partner Daniel Colegate on November 22 from the top of Pic de Sauvegarde on the border between Spain and France.

Daniel has continued a search of lower slopes since April and remained in contact with the Spanish police and said the Guardia Civil, supported by a helicopter, had resumed the search after the spring thaw.

He said he would continue his personal search “because it is all that I can do” – and would move from Spanish slopes to the French side of the mountain range.

Esther and Daniel, both from Durham, had been traveling together through Europe for six years in a campervan. She had started a solo trek in Benasque and was due to spend the night at the Refuge de Venasque.

She had taken the campervan to the mountains while Daniel stayed at a farm in the Gascony area of France.